Tehlor Kay Mejia
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We set the dark on fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband's household or raise his children. Both paths promise a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school's top student, but her pedigree is a lie. She must keep the truth hidden or be sent back...
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We set the dark on fire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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On the other side of Medio's border wall, the oppressed class fights for freedom and liberty, sacrificing what little they have to become defenders of the cause. Carmen Santos is one of La Voz's best soldiers: she spent years undercover, but now, with her identity exposed and the island on the brink of a civil war, Carmen returns to La Voz's headquarters. There she must reckon with her beloved leader, who is under the influence of an aggressive new...
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Paola Santiago volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River
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Paola Santiago volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Thirteen-year-old Paola Santiago must return to the void to rescue her best friend Dante and face her biggest foe yet: El Cucuy, the lord of nightmares"--
5) Miss Meteor
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls
Everyone knows Meteor, New Mexico got its name from the space rock that crashed into the desert nearby. Nobody knows that Lita Perez came with it-- or that...
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Paola Santiago volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Months after confronting the legendary La Llorona, Paola starts dreaming again, this time about fantasmas that are stalking her and someone who might be even more dangerous--her estranged father
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English
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An edge-of-your-seat fantasy about a girl who will do anything to protect her sister—even if it means striking a dangerous bargain. Dark forces, forgotten magic, and a heart-stopping queer romance make this young adult novel a must-read.A scorned god.A mysterious acolyte.A forgetting drug.A dangerous forest.One girl caught between the freedom she always wanted and a sister she can't bear to leave behind.Under the cover of the Night Forest, will...
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules